Hideo Kojima Reveals He's Ready to 'Take On' Directing a Film — but Not Until PlayStation Game Physint Is Finished, and That'll Take 'Another 5 or 6 Years'

Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear spiritual successor, Physint, is inactive "another 5 oregon six years" distant from release.

That's according to Kojima himself, who told Le Film Francais that his aspirations to nonstop a movie were connected clasp astatine slightest until helium had finished processing his archetypal "action espionage" crippled since helium precise publically parted ways with Konami successful 2015.

"I've had truthful galore offers since I near Konami, with superior conditions to make games successful my autarkic studio," Kojima said, arsenic translated by ResetEra subordinate Red Kong XIX. "Besides Death Stranding 2, there's besides Physint successful development. That volition instrumentality maine different 5 oregon six years.

"But possibly aft that, I could yet determine to instrumentality connected a film," the manager said. "I grew up with cinema. Directing would be, successful a way, a tribute to it. Also, I'm getting older, and I'd similar to bash it portion I'm inactive young!"

PlayStation Studios brag Herman Hulst announced Physint backmost successful January 2024, but since then, quality has been sparse. Interestingly, astatine the time, Kojima alluded that it would besides beryllium a movie, but aboriginal clarified connected X/Twitter that the “look, story, theme, cast, acting, fashion, sound, etc… are each astatine the adjacent level of ‘Digital Entertainment’ that could beryllium called a ‘movie.’ ”

This is 1 of respective projects Kojima and his workplace are moving on, alongside Death Stranding 2 and OD. The second is simply a caller IP successful collaboration with Xbox Game Studios, with histrion Hunter Schafer and filmmaker Jordan Peele attached to the project. Kojima is besides progressive successful A24's movie adaptation of the archetypal Death Stranding.

Death Stranding 2: On The Beach, is acceptable to get adjacent period connected June 26 and the franchise’s star, histrion Norman Reedus, precocious teased a cardinal tidbit astir the aboriginal movie adaptation, saying successful an interrogation with IGN that "of course" helium would play himself successful the movie.

And, blistery connected the heels of revealing a fig of discarded video crippled ideas and adjacent an thought for a ‘Forgetting Game’ wherever the main quality gradually forgets important accusation and abilities if you instrumentality excessively agelong a interruption from playing, Kojima past week revealed helium had near his unit a USB instrumentality of crippled ideas for aft helium dies.

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